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By: Tom Smith
In November 2021, more than 4.5 million people voluntarily left their jobs in the US, the highest number since records began. Popularly known as the ‘Great Resignation’, the ongoing rejection of work-as-we-knew-it may not be a social movement in the normal sense of the term, but it is certainly a sign of rolling social upheaval. The increasing bargaining power of labour in the Covid economy, an...
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By: Robert J. Gordon
Subtitle: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War The publisher: In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and workplaces. With medical advances, life expectanc...
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Aus dem Text: Darüber hinaus sind aber auch kulturelle und psycho-soziale Faktoren für die Trägheit unserer Lebenswelt verantwortlich. Damit sind tief verinnerlichte Vorstellungen von einem guten Leben und Haltungen gemeint, die unser Handeln auf Wachstum und Steigerung ausrichten, der Sozialpsychologe Harald Welzer bezeichnet sie als „mentale Infrastrukturen des Wachstums“. (1) W...
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By: Al Bartlett
Professor Bartlett has given his celebrated one-hour lecture, "Arithmetic, Population and Energy: Sustainability 101" over 1,742 times times to audiences with an average attendance of 80 in the United States and world-wide. His audiences have ranged from junior high school and college students to corporate executives and scientists, and to congressional staffs. He first gave the talk in Septemb...
